In a class on ministry, Will Willimon often referred to “the great theologian of our age”—meaning Bob Dylan, whose poetic expression of antiwar convictions helped Willimon articulate a Christian ...

Hymns are “important in the history of ideas, the formation of culture, and the inner life of individual readers,” J. R. Watson reminds us in this time when the disciplines of hymn writing and singing ...

Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century. Historian John Dickson knows that “early” Christian music usually refers to ...

Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding joined forces to recreate an 1,800-year-old hymn Tomlin's 'Good Friday Nashville' concert on April 18 sold out Bridgestone Arena Christian singer/songwriter Chris ...

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sang would feature on Australian music charts 1,800 years later. But one Australian academic's obsession with ...

For several years when my aunt, English teacher Linda Haynes, was the music leader at my hometown Methodist church, she often prefaced hymns with accounts of how they came to be. Those stories always ...

(RNS) Thousands of churches in dozens of countries have registered to sing “Facing a Task Unfinished,” revamped by contemporary hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty. (RNS) Thousands of churches across ...

Hymn writing should be a spiritual practice for everyday saints, not just for worship professionals. Anyone who has grown up in or around the church is likely familiar with “hymn stories”—the stories ...

Often people who don’t go to church think that those who do go spend their time there singing hymns. Yet there is no explicit provision for parish hymn-singing in the Book of Common Prayer, and, in ...